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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -11

by David Joynt on April 21, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -11

1 CORINTHIANS 13:2b| 2band understand all mysteries and all knowledge...

 We live in a knowledge based economy during the information age. Now Paul was a knowledge seeker, trained by the greatest Jewish scholar of his era, Gamaliel, and also conversant with Greco-Roman philosophy (this is evident in his Acts 17 speech to the Areopagis in Athens where he quotes poets and philosophers). God gave us the gifts of language and reason so we would explore the world, develop technological and healing arts, and advance our life together. But knowledge alone is simply a form of power and can be used for good or ill. Nuclear research created power sources and weapons of mass destruction. Satellites foster communication and can be
platforms for inter-stellar conflict. Drugs can heal or harm.

 Love is the key to the way we use our knowledge and it can turn information into wisdom.

 Are you a knowledge seeker?

 How do you use your knowledge?

 

Tags: seeker, knowledge

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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